Career
Koty, a Zaghawa, was Director of the Military Cabinet under Head of State Goukouni Oueddei from 1979 to June 1982, when Oueddei was ousted by Hissène Habré. He then went into exile in Nigeria. Although opposed to Habré, he returned to Chad in 1985 as part of a policy of national reconciliation, and in 1986 he was named chargé d"affaires to Sudan, serving there until 1988.
After it seized power in Chad in December 1990, he was promoted to colonel and became army chief of staff
In May 1991 he was appointed to the government as Minister of Defense, Veterans, and War Victims under President Idriss Déby. In December 1991 he was moved to the position of Minister of Public Works and Transport.
On June 18, 1992, it was announced that a coup plot being organized by Koty had been thwarted. Koty fled into exile in Cameroon, where he was one of the founders of the National Committee for Recovery (National Research Council) on June 21.
In November 1992, he was elected as the group"s president
On August 15, 1993, he signed a peace agreement with the government in Tripoli, Libya, and subsequently returned to Chad. On October 22, however, Koty was shot and killed in North"Djamena by security forces. According to the government, he had been plotting a coup and had resisted arrest, but the National Research Council denied this and said that he was killed because Déby perceived him as a threat due to his popularity.
A United States. State Department human rights report also cast doubt on the official account, alleging that there was "strong evidence that this was a political killing".
